Streetlevel: Olive Garden Coming to Lower Slope
With new Boymelgreen buildings spreading like the clap, it’s hard to say that the arrival of an Olive Garden will make Fourth Avenue less classy but it certainly ain’t gonna help. You can take some solace in the fact that the future tenancy of the Italian food chain at Isaac Katan’s new development at 500…
With new Boymelgreen buildings spreading like the clap, it’s hard to say that the arrival of an Olive Garden will make Fourth Avenue less classy but it certainly ain’t gonna help. You can take some solace in the fact that the future tenancy of the Italian food chain at Isaac Katan’s new development at 500 4th Avenue is still classified as a rumor by blogger Five of Toast.
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Get ready people more chains are comin. Manhattan is a mall and Brooklyn soon will be too.
OK, Olive Garden in Brooklyn is scary, but who else but a chain could afford to rent in those new condos? Sure beats Duane Reade or another bank.
This is so sweet. Now whenever one of my snooty PS friends cops an attitude, or when some obnoxious PS mom knocks me off the sidewalk with her freaking stroller, I can just tell them all to get their asses back to their Olive Garden for unlimited breadsticks!! Oh, God, I just love this! Maybe there is a God after all.
trendy people who don’t eat are inordinately interested in the quality and status of food. I guess they want to not eat only the best.
This is really funny. I worked in Kew Gardens Queens for many years. In the 90s an Olive Garden opened on Queens Blvd., across from Borough Hall. The owners obviously sunk a lot of money into the place, which was physically quite attractive. The restaurant limped along for a couple of years and finally closed, to be replaced IIRC by a dialysis facility. There was no snobbery in it’s rejection–the consensus among the largely lower middle class staff of the DA’s office, Courts, etc. was that Olive Garden was an Italian restaurant for people who had never had Italian food–a clientele difficult to find in Queens OR Brooklyn. That being said, Olive Garden’s soup, salad, and salty white bread “bread sticks” DID make for a good cheap lunch, but most everything else was pretty bad, something obvious to anyone who went to the many non-chain Italian restaurants in the area.
David, I would be fibbing if I said that I haven’t enjoyed Mickey D’s fare on many occasions through the years, and
truthfully I would enjoy the big freaky clowns fare over the fakey Italian anyday… but I also know that there are many folks who enjoy the friends and family atmosphere of Olive Garden… and it would probably draw a crowd.
I say this rumor is false
That being said… Bren you dont know anything about food…
It definitely isnt healthy and it certainly isnt ‘fine food’ and I know why people don’t want to live near one – but McDonalds food is GREAT! It is by far the best in its genre. To compare it to that horrible Olive Garden is ridiculous –
McDonalds is so good (for what it is) I sometimes think it is engineered to be addictive.
http://www.therealdeal.net/issues/JUNE_2007/1180563903.php
Recent article about development on
Fourth Avenue…
finally! an authentic place to take my Italian grandfather when he get’s his citizenship! you know they train their chefs in Sicily?